Does suspension of Tamil Makkalosai represent first sign of repression and crackdown?

A different signal is given by government’s standard bearer, NST. In a rare front-page editorial, NST 16th April defended AAB against growing calls within UMNO calling for his resignation; said March 8th Tsunami was everyone else’s fault, not just PM, and NST openly admitted that :
“The truth is that the people have long been disgusted with the kind of boorish, loutish behaviour that Umno leaders had exemplified because of their grip on power since indepen Abdullah is not solely to be blamed and everything will not suddenly be all well again if he goes. Umno, from the roots to the high branches, all have to share the blame for their silence, their greed, arrogance and shenanigans that have turned off voters.”
NST has singled out two top Umno leaders for criticism – Umno Youth chief Hishammuddin Onn and former Selangor mentri besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo.
“Brandishing the keris was hurtful to the non-Malays but the party leadership did nothing to take the Umno Youth chief to task for the menacing and insulting gesture.
“Which was why he (Hishammuddin) was emblodened to repeat it and provide extra impetus for the Chinese and Indians to abandon BN at the polls.”
Khir Toyo was lambasted for the “desecration of the (Hindu) temple” under his watch as mentri besar as well as awarding a broom to a top government servant, a gesture which has enraged the civil service.
Thank you NST – and Kalimullah.

(Continuation) What does this signify?

Two forces are raging within ruling circle.

1. Forces calling for AB’s political demise and
2. Forces resisting –

Forces 1 (call them the “M Forces”) never wanted change, opposing AAB from day one. Even today they blame AB for 8th March debacle. This is convenient. If AAB were the one responsible, then it is not the fault of the rest and the rest could carry on with what they were doing. These M Forces are the people who would influence suspension of Tamil Makkalosai, resist release of Hindraf’s leaders and even punish former sessions court judge Zunaidah Mohd Idris for earlier releasing them on sedition charges. They just want to blame anybody for helping Hindraf because Hindraf for stirring as catalyst Indian voters in particular and other Malaysians in general against the mighty BN.

I unreservedly support NST’s position and all forces in 2 – to admit and not engage in denial of their own faults blaming AB for everything. Because without admission, there can be no reform, just perpetuation of you know who’s legacy….

You will see clearly who stirs M Forces. The purpose is to protect a certain political legacy that AAB is blamed as an unwitting agent of its unraveling, as evinced on March 8th . If legacy were unraveled, so does immunity from accountability. NST seems to be opposed to M Forces. We should know why someone in NST has been described, with vintage tradmark sarcasm, as having power of “Hindu God and Muslim Priest”!!!!!

The great contest for the soul of Malaysia is : allow the continuance of that political legacy and all it stands for – or fight tooth and nail to dismantle it and oppose M Forces.

You can see even today how he reaches to cajole encourage and fight to perpetuate the political legacy by unseating incumbent to be replaced by men protective of it.

Many Malaysians don’t agree. They voted resoundingly on March 8th for an disparate Opposition led by his nemesis that he punished. What does that mean??

Yet he perseveres, he doesn’t get it. Malaysians old enough – think! What was life before his advent into the stage and what happened steadily after??? It has never been the same since then.

Too little too late isn’t it?? – Undergrad2

Maybe but still at least someone somewhere acknowledges the depredations of a certain political culture and legacy that someone else is trying very hard to perpetuate by deposing current incumbent.

What was life before the advent of that person into the political stage?

You have said it well in the other thread on Islamic state and I quote:

“Should Malays expect a return to the era of Tunku (who loved whisky, poker and horses, and women – not necessarily in that order), Razak and Hussein Onn, when religion was a personal matter, when you could then eat at Chinese restaurants all over PJ Newtown and had second helpings of char koay teow, drink Anchor, Carlsberg and Tiger beer by the jars at Pines and pubs scattered all over KL and PJ, smoked weed at discos at Time Tunnel along Jalan Ampang and The Cellar in PJ, dressed in revealing miniskirts and tank tops and do whatever you chose to do including Saturday nights “kereta rosak” along Jln. Damansara with your hot boyfriend or girlfriend when the police could be counted upon to provide security, when nobody gave so much as a second look at you, and when there was no moral police around to spoil your fun. Not to forget Rose Chan and her many young and sexy apprentices, when smoking acquired a new meaning and ping pong balls had nothing to do with the game of ping pong?” – Undergrad2

It was a time when Malays Indians and Chinese mixed as Malaysians. Where there was mutual camadarie (racial harmony) it is now mutual suspicion. Yes then no gleaming towers and infrastructure, but also no repression and no moral policing, raids, with religion enforced in every aspect of lives. Culture was relaxed, simple, with Malay girls in kampungs going out to take water with sarongs rolled up to just above the breast without consciousness of what others thought and said. Today some are so worried that they swim fully clothed in public and hotel swimming pools.

We can never return to Life as it was – no point in nostalgia – but we can fight against aspects of that which have changed everyone’s lives for the worse and certain sections are still manoeuvring to preserve. The battle is still raging as I said in preceding post.

Why wouldn’t he emulate? Would he be successor so quickly had it not been for help from a certain quarter? How to repay debt of such assistance??

How to reflect when 2nd floor Wisma Central is no more the same????

No. Don’t where he stands on this – pingpong and of course smoking cigarettes. He seems to be less fearful of PAS and its agenda on “Piety”, so what do you think?